An estimated two in five Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. There are hundreds of cancer patient navigators, or nurse navigators, across Canada, and some patients say they are essential.When Lynda Lau Liebrecht was diagnosed with cancer, she didn't have a nurse working as a cancer patient navigator to help guide her. When Lynda Lau Liebrecht was first diagnosed with breast cancer, everything she read was telling her about the importance of urgency.
"At the beginning, you're just thinking the squeaky wheel gets the grease and I've not heard from anybody. So it just makes you feel like you have to self-advocate harder, because … you just feel like you're falling through a crack," she said.Lorie Kielley is a registered nurse who works as a cancer patient navigator with Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services.
When Nancy Hounsell was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2018, she was living in Ontario at the time, and didn't have access to a cancer patient navigator to help her through it. So she was left to figure things out on her own. Nurse navigators help patients figure out the next steps shortly after their cancer diagnosis as they prepare for treatment.
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